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# 16 29-04-2007 , 03:09 AM

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Originally posted by Sicky
u made some nice progress man good job , it looks wobbly tho :/ u need to sort some of the vetices out or remove them which ever ya prefer to smoothen it up a little bit

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yeah thats part of the body work I've gotta work on today. Thanks for the comments though, I appreciate it a lot. user added image

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# 17 29-04-2007 , 06:30 PM

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no probs man keep it up user added image

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# 18 30-04-2007 , 01:41 PM

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Tonight I spent some time once again working on the body a bit, and then I moved to some interior things, still a lot of work left to do on the interior, I just need to get away from my computer for the night it's 1:30am and I've been up almost 24 hours between work and maya I get no sleep. At a later time or if the mood strikes sooner I will change the tires to something more sporty. They're just there for a reference for now. I threw them together real quick, not bad for my first set of tires I think.

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Same shot wireframe poly smooth
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Please comments and/or crits are welcome.

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# 19 30-04-2007 , 02:35 PM

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looks tons loads better dude

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# 20 13-05-2007 , 09:00 PM

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After weeks of building, and tweeking, and pulling, and pushing, and smoothing, and rendering, and duplicating :headbang: Here's some base mesh shots of the vehicle just about ready to start UV'ing. I have a little more tweeking to do on the roof, make it a bit rounder, and thats about it. I've neglected my friends, and used the days off from work and the time after work and some sleeping time to get this as far as I have.

Please any suggestions before I get into laying out the UV's would be greatly appreciated.

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# 21 13-05-2007 , 09:21 PM

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just to see it smoothed with color I did this with some blinn's, don't really know much about any of it just knew it was shiny and lamberts aren't so I used it real quick to do this just for fun.
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# 22 15-05-2007 , 10:03 AM

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well no suggestions? I'm going to start UV'ing in a little bit.

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# 23 15-05-2007 , 11:36 AM

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It's a wee bit too dark to make much out...adding a couple spot lights, and/or a directional light will bring it out more ^_^

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# 24 15-05-2007 , 11:45 AM

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look at the post before this page, I posted wires of the base mesh with front back and side shots to get a view of everything to see what else needs to be tweaked, before I start laying out UV's and texturing the model. The cars going to be more than one solid color so it has to be textured.
The color render was more just a fun picture of color because I was feeling impatient for color so I needed a quick teaser. Apparently I just need to turn up the 3 spot lights I have in the scene. Also trying to learn Mental Ray since I've never used it before. Thanks for the suggestion with that render.

Oh yeah, still have to do new rims and tires, can't find a set I really like though.. any suggestions for that would be great to.

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# 25 18-05-2007 , 12:20 PM

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Ok so today I spent time laying out the UV's, this is my third time laying out uv's and using PS so hopefully this looks good to more than just me, haha. Spent about 6 hours laying out the UV's and getting the paintjob on the car kind of the way I wanted. I want to experiment a lot more with the same type of idea.
heres some pictures

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MR Test Render with paintjob:
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Any suggestions on how to get the snake skin image to blend with the other pieces better?

Oh and does anyone have any idea why the side mirrors didn't get textured? they were covered in the same snake skin texture as everything else, it doesn't make since to me user added image

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# 26 19-05-2007 , 01:19 AM

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any help at all?
I did figure out why the side mirrors didn't texture, but I'd still like some help with getting the paint to line up better... and of course any other problems that you see that you can help me with.

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# 27 19-05-2007 , 02:24 PM

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The texture not matching up is because the parts that you want to continue the texture onto are not together in the UV texture editor, If you apply a Checker material to the object you will be able to see the areas where theres a mis match, basicallly for something where you want it to look continous you would need to either make the sepperate parts into pretty much one UV map or make sure that you minimise the difference between the sepperate parts of the object.

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# 28 20-05-2007 , 02:35 AM

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I don't know if you render your images with the mental ray carpaint shader, but if u use the custom shadingnetwork i added below it would save a lot of rendertime and looks nice enough to, and i think u must adjust the snakeskin in the uv editor by moving and scaling the uv's

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# 29 20-05-2007 , 03:16 AM

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Gster - Alright I'll give moving all them closer together so theres less space between the painted areas, maybe all those pieces towards the top and the back of all the pieces on the bottom of the UV editor so that they're both seperate.

Mastone - I am using mental ray, didn't know there was a car shader and looking at that diagram gave me a headache, don't know what the majority of that means. Thanks for the help, maybe I'll try and figure it out if it comes down to that.

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# 30 29-05-2007 , 11:15 PM

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I haven't posted anything in a while in here, I decided to fool around with an hdri image I found at this site: https://www.debevec.org/Probes/ (have to give credit where credits due)
I don't know much about any of this stuff but fooling around in it seems to be the way to go.

Like always comments and suggestions are much appreciated.

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funny thing I just realised, the lights I was getting on my car when I posted this (two days ago) https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=26389 aren't there anymore after I inserted this sphere around my project (the HDRI) I wonder what causes those lights?

Once again my mental ray, and light settings

Render Global Settings

Ray Tracing: On
Reflections: 2
Refractions: 2
Max Trace Depth: 4
Shadow Trace Depth: 2
Scanline: On
Faces: Both

Global Illumination: On
Global Illum Accuracy: 200
Global Illum Radius: 2.00
Global Illum Scale: White
Photon Volume Accuracy: 64
Photon Volume Radius: 0
Max Photon Depth: 5
Rebuild Photon Map: Check
Max Reflection Photons: 5
Max Refraction Photons: 5

Two Spotlights, no decay
Main Spotlight
Emit Photons: Check
Photon Intensity: 24000
Exponent: 1
Global Illum Photons: 1000

Second Spotlight
Emit Photons: Check
Photon Intensity: 16000
Exponent: 1
Global Illum Photons: 1000

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